On any given Saturday afternoon from April through October, a steady hum pulses in and out of Mountain View Speedway. Fans work their way through the crowd and the stands, and clay dust breathes off the track surface as the race cars drift around each left turn at the quarter mile long dirt track.
This track hasn’t always been so alive. The track located at High Country Fairgrounds has been closed for the past 18 years, opening only a few times in 2011 for lawnmower races. But in spring 2015, Mountain View Speedway reopened for stock car racing for the first time since 1997.